This plan looks to effectively carry out Vietnam’s initiatives and commitments to the international community in the settlement of plastic waste problems, especially marine plastics, and turn the country into a regional leader in reducing marine plastic pollution.

Vietnam aims to reduce 75% of plastic debris in the ocean in the next 10 years.

It is also meant to help successfully realise the national strategy for integrated management of solid waste until 2025, with a vision to 2050.

The action plan targets that by 2030, the country will reduce 75% of plastic waste in the ocean, have 100% of lost or discarded fishing tools collected, and eradicate the direct discharge of fishing tools into the ocean.

With this scheme, Vietnam also hopes all tourist sites, tourist accommodation establishments and other tourism service providers in coastal areas will not use disposable plastic products or non-biodegradable plastic bags. Meanwhile, all coastal nature reserves will become free of plastic waste by 2030.

The country will also increase monitoring annually and every five years to assess marine plastic pollution in some river mouths of 11 main river basins and 12 island districts.

Health sector asked to minimise plastic waste

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has signed an instruction asking organisations in the health sector to strictly minimise plastic waste.

Hanoi installation exhibition to underline problem of waste

A joint Vietnamese-French exhibition titled ‘Let’s reduce waste!’ will open next week at the French Cultural Center in Hanoi.

Vietnam football team, coach appointed ambassadors for anti-plastic waste campaign

The Vietnamese national men’s football team and its coach will be ambassadors for a campaign to limit single-use plastic products.

Vietnam actively controls plastic waste

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on June 9 to launch a national campaign on plastic waste prevention in response to the UN’s call for preventing the threat of plastic waste pollution to the ecological environment and people's health. Attending the event, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for practical and specific actions to control and reduce plastic waste.

PM calls for drastic measures to control and reduce plastic waste

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised the need to take  practical and concrete measures to control and reduce plastic waste while launching a national campaign on plastic waste prevention in Hanoi on June 9.

Source: NDO/VNA